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  • also, yall are on bikes

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  • Knights on Bikes?

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  • The arbitrary criteria I spoke of is slightly different. 🤷‍♂️

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  • If an "uncontacted" group here on earth suddenly arrived at the nearest "civilized" settlement and asked for help curing a disease ravaging their people, would you advocate we turn away?

    What if the disease is something easily cured with modern medicine?

    A blanket rule to not "interfere" with civilizations based on an arbitrary criteria (in ST: warp capable) is immoral.

  • What's your hot take on the Marvel cinematic Universe?

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  • make it a 20 year wait and we have a deal.

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  • When someone lies about helping, that's not what I am talking about.

    This is a thought experiment based on a hyper advanced society capable of easily solving many problems. We don't have that and never have on this planet.

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  • It's been a long ... time .. since I saw ENT, and I couldn't recall that episode, so I went and read a plot summary and still had a hard time recalling it.

    The plot summary makes it seem, to me at least, like a very specific and constructed scenario to try to justify it ex-post-facto in canon.

    My major issue with the directive is how general and unnuanced it is. Of course there are cases where you would not want to intervene because of some unique issue. To avoid helping for fear of potential futures is cowardly and unjustified, however.

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  • That's on them.

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  • How is this hypothetical a false premise?

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  • This thought experiment is pretty easy:

    if you could alleviate a large amout of suffering and death for a sentient species at little to no cost to yourself, would you?

    If you can do that so trivially that it has no negative impact on you, and you do not do it, are you acting ethically?

    The answers will be yes and no for most people. To me that makes it clear that neither the Prime Directive nor any kind of all-powerful deity can be moral, at least not humanly moral.

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  • The Prime Directive is immoral.

  • why so much Star Trek?

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  • ... it's insidious, isn't it?

  • why so much Star Trek?

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  • why so much Star Trek?

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  • ... the unit circle, in fact! In this talk, I will explain how the Fediverse and rhe Federation are analagous constructs in ...

    where is everybody going?

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  • I'll uh .. be over here continuing to use an OS that doesn't

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    show me an ad when I am logging in.

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  • I'll uh ... be over here continuing to use an OS that doesn't

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    show me a full-screen ad.

  • New website shows you how much Google AI can learn from your photos

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  • This is one company using FUD to scare you away from another to switch to them.

    This company is doing the thing they say is bad but

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    for marketing purposes.

    Miss me with this shit, I will keep backing my stuff up into a service that stores bulk data..🤷‍♂️

  • The rebellion will be federated

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  • Not only that, I am reading angry commenter's comments from an mbin instance. 🤷‍♂️

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  • But modern Linux is easier to use than modern windows, so that last point doesn't really work.

    Modern Linux runs just about any windows app, including most games. It also supports web browsers which can access Teams, etc.

    It seems like maybe the reason is more inertial than based on factors a well run business should consider.

  • Plex is overhauling its apps with a redesign and under-the-hood upgrades

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